Tube supporter for fountain syringes



March 5, 1929. H, A, BAUMAN ET AL 1,703,859

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Patented Mar. 5, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OF AKRON, OHIO, ASSIGNORS TO THE Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TUBE SUPPORTER FOR FOUNTAIN SYRINGES.

Application filed October 9, 1926. Serial No. 140,520.

This invention relates to fountain syringes or water bottles including a. rubber bag and a rubber tube for connecting said bag with a suitable nozzle. i, y

The object of the invention is to support the tube in a definite relation to the bag while they are stored or displayed in their box or container, and in such manner that the tube may be readily removed for use. YThe tube supporter may further be made to serve as aseparate hanger for the tube.

Of the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 is a plan View showing a fountainsyringe, tube and nozzles in their box, together with a tube supporter Constructed and arranged accord,- ing to our invention.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the tube supporter.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing a modified supporter used as a hanger for the tube.

In the drawings, 10 is the ordinary boxbody for fountain syringe parts, having alarge compartment 11 for the water bag and tube and a small compartment 12 for the nozzles. 13 is the rubber syringe bag having a tab 130 at its mouth end which may be tied to the bottom and one end wall of the box by a string 14. 15 is the rubber tube coiled over the bag.

It has been considerable of aI problem in the past to anchor the tube in the box, neatly and in a definite relation to the bag, so that the tube would not become displaced in handling the package a minimum of space will be occupied and the goods could be attractively displayed. This problem is effectively solved in our present invention by the provision of the tube supporter of Whichwe show a preferred iform in the drawings.

This tube supporter 16 may conveniently be made from a strip of card-board one end of which is extended in a plate-like bag-entering portion 17 and the other end of which is bent into rectangular, tubular form to constitute a holder 18 for receiving the loops of the rubber tube 15, its extremity lying against the plate-like portion and bein secured thereto by al staple 19. Because o? this construction of the holder 18, it will be obvious that the tubular portion of cardboard is collapsible along the edges of the rectangle so as to occupyl but little space when not being used for supporting syringe tubing.

In assembling the parts, the tube 15 is looped through the holder 18 and the platelike portion 17, which is nearly the Width of the mouth 20 of the bag, is passed through said mouth into the interior of the bag, so that the holder 18 lies immediately above and adjacent to the mouth, over the tab 130, and substantially fills the space between said mouth and the upper end wall of the bag. In this way the rubber tube is efectively positioned or held in place in horizontal directions and in a downward vertical direction by the bag and in an upward vertical direction by the box, and the goods may be attractively displayed in the open box. To remove the supporter, it is merely necessary to slip it out of the bag and the tube may then be readily disengaged from the holder 18.

In Figs. 1 and 2 the length of the bag-entering portion 17 of the tube-supporter is such that said portion extends nearly to the bottom of the bag, this arrangement being preferred as tending best to maintain the supporter properly alined and prevent accidental displacement, and to hold the sides of the bag apart, but said bag-entering portion 17 may be considerably shortened as shown in the modification of Fig. 3.

In addition to its tube-supporting function in the box, the supporter 16 may also be employed by the user as a separate tube hanger, and for this purpose the longer form of Figs. 1 and 2 is shown provided with apertures 21 near each end of the bag-entering portion, and the shorter form of Fig. 3 is shown with a single such aperture, whereby the supporter may be suspended in an inverted position upon a projecting nail or hook and act as a hanger for the rubber tube 15 after the manner indicated in Fig. 3.

Other modifications in the described structure and arrangement may be made within the scope of our claims.

We claim:

1. A supporter for fountain-syringe tubes comprising a plate-like portion adapted to enter the syringe bag and a tubular tube-holding portion at one end thereoef.

2. A supporter for fountain,-syringe tubes comprising a tube-holding portion, and a bag-entering port-ion formed to engage a nail or hook and permit the supporter to act in an inverted position as a tube hanger.

3. A supporter for fountain-syringe tubes comprising a strip of material a portion of which is extended'as a plate-like bag-entering` member and another portion ot' which is bent into tubular form at the end of said member to act as a tube-holder. l

4. A supporter for fountain-syringe bags Comprising a stripotl card-board bent into tubular form at one end to receive the syringe- Y tube, the remainder being extended as a platelike baU-enterine ortion and formed with a D u c u c n perforation by which to hangit on a nail o1' hook.v

' 5i A Combined display device and Container for a fountain syringe Comprising a container havingl side walls and a tube supporting' member' adapted to have an end thereof extendinoit'or a substantial distance into the of a fountain syringe positioned in the container and1 to havel the opposite end resting adlacent one ot the container side Walls, the last mentioned end being 'forme-fl with a tubular tube-holding portion.

6. A combined display device and container for a fountain syringe assembly Which comprises a container formed with side Walls; and a tube supporter pro-vided with an elongated tongue adapted to have a portion thereof inserted Within the bag of a fountain syringe, and also provided with a tubular tubepositioning portion, the said tube supporter being adapted to be retained in place Within the Container by eoaetion of the said tongue and tube-positioning portion respectively with the side Walls ot" a syringe positioned in the latter, and Wit-h the side Wall of the eon tainer.

In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our handsthis thvday of Octoberg 1926.

' HARRY A. BAUlVifrN.V JOHNAW. Vl-ICurGrlNS. 

